Wolf's Den Armoury

I’ve been making chainmaille since late 1994, ever since my oldest son’s 6th grade class did a segment on the Middle Ages and the teacher wanted some parental help with some medieval crafts for the kids to work on. I have had a lifelong love of all things ancient and this was just right opportunity to learn something new. I had an old book on blacksmithing (I have it to this day, in fact) that had a drawing of a piece of chainmaille on one of the pages. I studied the picture for hours, trying to figure out exactly how the piece was woven with every ring having the 4 surrounding it to go through that ring. Since that day, I have learned or taught myself over 60 methods of weaving maille, some distinct weaves, some variations of other weaves.